The Jury for the 9th edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Scientists, chaired by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and made up of Cristiana Bastos (Institute of Social Sciences), José Castiano (Pedagogical University of Mozambique), José Neves (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Raquel Maria Rigotto (Federal University of Ceará), took the unanimous decision to nominate the joint winners:

Élida Lauris with Acesso para quem precisa, justiça para quem luta, direito para quem conhece. Dinâmicas de colonialidade e narra(alterna-)tivas do acesso à justiça no Brasil e em Portugal; and Sílvia Roque with Das revoluções por cumprir às resistências (im)possíveis. Jovens e percursos de violências em El Salvador e na Guiné-Bissau.

The jury has also granted three Special Mentions to the following works:

- Entre os Senhores das Ilhas e as Descontentes. Ausência e Emergência de Mulheres no Campo Político em Cabo Verde, by Eurídice Monteiro;

- Cidade & Cidadania (através da Arte). O Teatro do Oprimido na Região Metropolitana de Lisboa, by André Seixas do Carmo;

- A pureza perdida do desporto: futebol no Estado Novo, by Rahul Mahendra Kumar.

With the prize money of 5.000,00 Euros, the 9^th CES Award edition is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

About the Award

In 1999, the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra has created a biennial award for young researchers (up to age 35) from Portuguese-speaking countries. CES Award is designed to distinguish high-quality work in the field of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. One of its main goals is to acknowledge studies that, for their outstanding merit, contribute to the development of the Portuguese-speaking scientific communities. The Social Sciences area is broadly understood.